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To: Tribune7
What is Hawking’s great achievement?

Officially, Hawkings radiation, the escape of radiation at the event horizon around black holes.

Unofficially, his paralysis has contribute to an extraordinary attention by a press sympathetic to the disabled to his career. Yeah, I know, he is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. I bet the only other holder of that seat people can name is Newton.

57 posted on 09/25/2010 9:52:16 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Officially, Hawkings radiation, the escape of radiation at the event horizon around black holes.

OK, thanks.

59 posted on 09/25/2010 10:00:33 AM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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